languishment
Example Sentences
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Based on Stewart’s recent cookbook of the same title, the show represents a fresh attempt at the genre after the languishment of a baking program in the kitschy backwoods of the Hallmark Channel.
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2012
"Sir," saith she, "Know you wherefore he hath fallen into languishment?"
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Evans, Sebastian
Exile hath worn my heart and my spirit with languishment, And evil fortune hath turned my very lovers unkind.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by Payne, John
The gentle calm that like a whispered song Steals o'er the sense with sweetest languishment?
From Eidolon, or The Course of a Soul And Other Poems by Cassels, Walter Richard
This languishment is come upon him through one that harboured in his hostel, to whom the most Holy Graal appeared.
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Evans, Sebastian
